The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-07-15
Friday, July 8.

The cholera is reported to be spreading in
Sicily
The Quebec fire did $3.50, 900 damage in
the citadel.
The French army is to be modified as an
experiment.
Big breaks in the ranks of the coke strik-
ers are reported.
Mr.. Blaine is besieged by autograph
hunters in England.
The Thistle is expected to sail for America
in about three weeks
There were thirteen cases Of prostration
from heat in New York.
Steamer Lewiston, Bangor to Boston, dam
aged by collision with an unknown three
masted schooner
A gang of wonld-l,e train robbers in
.: Texas we're & met With yolley g lead, and
Prince Edward Island Ashermen say that
American schooners are taking mackerel
within the three-mile limit.
A comrade is condemned by Gen. Lander
post, of Lynn, for making false and ma
lignant statements rejecting upon the citi-
zens of Richmond.
Albert M. Rich, first mate of the Ameri
can ship Robert L. Belknap, has been ac-
quilted at New York of the charge Of
causing the death Of sailor.
1t is said that wealthy editor of Boston
has made provision in his will for fund to
establish a professorship of practical
journalism at Harvard college,
The governor has pardoned Nathan p
Pratt, who was sentenced to the Massachu-
setts state prison in 1884 for embezzling
funds Of the Reading savings bank.
It is reported from Idaho that number
of Chinese mining camps along Snake river
have been raided either by Indians or
whites Numerous mutilated bodies of
Chinamen have come down stream, four or
five being found together few days since.
1t is thought to be the work of white men
who robbed the Chinese of their gold dust.
Saturday, July o.
The Manchester ship canal bill passed the
house of lords.
i Jacob Adler, the New York glove manu-
facturer, is dead.
The reviews of the weeks business are
generally favorable.
The Comte de Paris says that before long
ne Will Oe KING OF france.
A parliamentary election in England
showed Conservative gains.
Eight miners, Italians, have been drowned
in an overaowing mine in Michigan.
Patsy Sheppard and Jem Carney are to
sail for Europe to-day from New York.
Providence journeymen horse-shoers have
been successful in strike for higher pay.
A jubilee pardon is offered British de-
serters who report to the proper authori-
ties
DR.. North, of Peru, Ind. died. His mur-
derer, Joseph Christianson, was taken from
Jail and hanged
Capt. Samuel P. Griffin, formerly of the
United States navy, and famous Arctic
navigator, is dead.
joaquin Miller proposes to engage in
fruit raising in Shasta county, Cal, where
he ownS some land.
citizens meeting in st. Louis has ap-
pointed committee to invite the president
and Mrs. Cleveland to visit that city on the
week beginning Oct. 2.
Chief Justice Doe, of New Hampshire,
who has been in ill-health some time, sails
for Europe from boston the Goth. He will
be abroad two months.
The constitution of the proposed state of
Utah, which has been adopted by the Nor
mon convention, provides for the complete
separation of church and state.
Guy c. Hotchkiss, after a secluded life of
twenty years in California, returns to his
family in Brooklyn, and becomes the pos
'essor Of $4,000, 600, which his father
eft.
Cyrus w. Field has made public letter
lenying the report of his squeezing in the
'ecent panic, and explaining his disposal of
took in the Manhattan Elevated Railroad |
A New York dispatch says Henry Scharf,
he veteran actor, has been missing from
lis horne since Saturday. He is IS years